Re: st: Re: QUestion using -fs- package

["Michael N. Mitchell" <Michael.Norman.Mitchell@gmail.com>]

Dear Nuno

  Thanks for letting us know that this helped and giving us more details about what you 
are doing. That makes perfect sense.

  If you later should want to convert those country codes (stored as a character) into a 
numeric value, you can see

  http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/faq/destring.htm

Best regards,

Michael N. Mitchell
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On 2010-06-08 2.37 PM, Nuno Soares wrote:
> Thank you everyone for the excellent tips! Statalist at its best!
>
> Michael, I know the -save , replace- command is pretty scary, but I'm
> using this bit of code on a given set of files and I'm aware of the
> potential dangers. Thank you for the heads up!
>
> Also, the reason for creating this variable is for using the name as
> identifier in future analysis. The names of the files are countries
> codes.
>
> All the best,
>
> Nuno
>
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Nuno Soares<ndsoares@gmail.com>  wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm using the -fs- command to look into a directory for several files, open
> > them, insert a new variable with the file name, and save them. The code is
> > the following:
> >
> > qui fs *.dta
> > foreach f in `r(files)' {
> >         use `f', clear
> >         cap drop file
> >         gen file=`f'
> >         save, replace
> > }
> >
> > However, when I run the code I get the following error code:
> > wscopear:  operator invalid
> > r(198);
> >
> > Basically the gen file=`f' command is returning the above error. Any way of
> > doing what it is intended to do?
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Nuno
>
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